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Star Wars The High Republic Adventures Phase III Vol. 4 Review CCLIII · Star Wars Alliance

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  Speaker 1: The Force will be with you always. Hello, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to another episode of Star Wars Alliance. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Clay and with me like every single week.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, is Katie, Katie, how you doing?
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  Speaker 2: Hello, guys, I'm doing good. You know, today was ordinary,
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  Speaker 2: which is always scary to say because you never know
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  Speaker 2: what tomorrow brings.
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  Speaker 1: But I totally get that. So for myself, I will
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  Speaker 1: say I have been doing a lot of stuff for
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  Speaker 1: our social media as far as like creating content, planning content.
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  Speaker 1: If you actually go and check right now, you will
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  Speaker 1: see that we have a go live announcement that jumps
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  Speaker 1: on our Blue Sky and our threads and our Instagram,
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  Speaker 1: and I just kind of play with some things are
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  Speaker 1: themes of the Night and everything else. Our main topic,
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  Speaker 1: of course is the High Republic Adventures, Volume four of
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  Speaker 1: Phase three, so that is our main background for our
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  Speaker 1: go live tab or go live announcement on Instagram. I'm
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  Speaker 1: really enjoying it. I'm having a lot of fun with it,
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  Speaker 1: and as I just told Katie before we went live,
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  Speaker 1: I am struggling to wrap my head around all of
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  Speaker 1: the things that we have to read all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And that's mainly because I am also uh deep in
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  Speaker 1: trying to keep a two year old almost three year
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  Speaker 1: old entertained for nine hours of the day, which is
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  Speaker 1: a lot harder when you don't want to just be
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  Speaker 1: that parents that's like, hey, here's the iPad, go have fun,
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  Speaker 1: you know. So it's it's it's a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's kat you just telling my voice, it's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not daycare currently has hand foot in mouth and
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  Speaker 2: going through. So I'm just like waiting because we've already
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  Speaker 2: had handfoot in mouth once this year, but it's apparently
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  Speaker 2: a different strain, so we're about to have that happen
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  Speaker 2: again and I'm gonna have to entertain a toddler.
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  Speaker 1: That's oh yeah, it is. So today we have very little,
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  Speaker 1: very very little news to talk about. There is one
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  Speaker 1: topic that was actually pretty interesting to see on on
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  Speaker 1: the news feed. We haven't really seen a lot of
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  Speaker 1: her in much of anything else, and I think there
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  Speaker 1: is totally a reason why, and it's, you know, she
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  Speaker 1: spells it out for us, and that is Katie Sackoff.
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  Speaker 1: She described these struggles of her life after the Mandalorian
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  Speaker 1: as well as during the Mandalorian. One big thing was
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  Speaker 1: that a lot of the articles basically came down to
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  Speaker 1: saying Katie Sakoff could not relate and connect to her
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  Speaker 1: character of bolk Tam.
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  Speaker 2: And this is where I think the wavelength between Dave
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  Speaker 2: Faloni live action and the wavelength between Dave Faloni animated
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  Speaker 2: is so vast. And I don't know if it's been
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  Speaker 2: Fabreau's influence or what. But on her show, on her podcast,
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  Speaker 2: The Sacoff Show, she was talking to her Battlestar Galactica
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  Speaker 2: co star Tamo Pinnicuet, and I feel like the quote
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  Speaker 2: is super important, she said, I lost all of my
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  Speaker 2: confidence after Mandalorian, all of it. My style of acting
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  Speaker 2: has always just been your first instinct, is the right instinct?
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  Speaker 2: Do that play the reality of the situation. And I've
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  Speaker 2: never really played a character, do you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 2: I've always played two steps removed from myself in a sense.
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  Speaker 2: It always felt grounded in some part of my belly
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  Speaker 2: of who I was. Bocaton is nowhere near who I
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  Speaker 2: am as a human being, her life, what she wants, don't.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't understand her as much as I understood her.
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  Speaker 2: I never felt her in my stomach. I never identified
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  Speaker 2: with her. I didn't know how to find her. She
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  Speaker 2: actually chose not to audition for live action roles for
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  Speaker 2: three years after her role in The man Florian because
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  Speaker 2: her confidence was so lacking. And I actually kind of
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  Speaker 2: got into a little bit of an argument in one
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  Speaker 2: of my local Star Wars group pages where I was
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  Speaker 2: just like, I think this showcases how different the Mandalorian
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  Speaker 2: Bocaton is from who we thought she was in the
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  Speaker 2: Clone Wars and Rebels. And she doesn't specifically say like
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  Speaker 2: Bocaton as a whole or Bokaton for the mental w
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  Speaker 2: but she's that's the assumption here.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's that's really it. And I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying uh, nor will I ever say that somebody who's
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  Speaker 1: voicing a animated character can really sever themselves from that character.
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  Speaker 1: It's just as an important of a performance in animation
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  Speaker 1: as it is in live action. I think there was
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  Speaker 1: such a gap in Bocatan's story between Clone Wars Rebels
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  Speaker 1: and then jumping to Mandalorian. Katie Sakoff did not get
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  Speaker 1: to take that journey, yep, And I think that was
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  Speaker 1: a big deal.
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  Speaker 2: And she probably didn't have that journey explained to her
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  Speaker 2: because they're so baranoid about losing something to the audience
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  Speaker 2: before the show ers. Yeah, Like, and you think about
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  Speaker 2: how Deve Faloney was with Mandalorian season seven where he
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  Speaker 2: brought back Oh my gosh, I can't remember his name, sorry,
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  Speaker 2: Clone War season seven where you get into Rebels and
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  Speaker 2: you have Ashley x Stein and you have the Clone
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  Speaker 2: Troopers voice actor guy what is his name?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, Bradley Baker.
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  Speaker 3: De Bradley Baker.
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  Speaker 2: You bring them back and Dave is like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: you're going to talk about the Battle of Mandalorian and
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  Speaker 2: Ashley and Deer like what happened at the Battle of Mandalorian,
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  Speaker 2: And Dave's like, hopefully you'll find out, like.
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  Speaker 1: That can you just can't do that? Like what there is?
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  Speaker 1: Because of that, I could totally get where Katie is
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  Speaker 1: coming from or y Kate Sakoff because it is so empty.
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  Speaker 1: You're just trying to at that point, you're literally just
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  Speaker 1: saying words off of paper. You're not getting the feeling
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  Speaker 1: of the character. You're not getting the experience of the character.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And you know some people will say, oh, well, people
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  Speaker 1: do that all the time. If you just read a novel,
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  Speaker 1: you're just reading a random book in somebody else's life
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  Speaker 1: and you know, fiction or nonfiction, whatever it may be,
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  Speaker 1: but in that case.
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  Speaker 2: That's your interpretation of what's happening exactly. An actor putting
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  Speaker 2: themselves on screen, whether it's animated or live action, has
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  Speaker 2: to deal with being the representation of that character for
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  Speaker 2: the rest of their life kind of thing. And I
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  Speaker 2: the other thing, I don't think if Katie sack Off
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  Speaker 2: hattn't enjoyed the Clone Wars and Hatton enjoyed Rebels, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think she would have come back for live.
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  Speaker 3: Action Boka time.
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  Speaker 2: We saw Dave Filoni and John Fava recast several people
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  Speaker 2: they like bringing back the voice actors, but sometimes that's
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  Speaker 2: not gonna happen. And I think if she had said no,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to come back, they would have found
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  Speaker 2: somebody else. So in my opinion, it's a definitive. The
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  Speaker 2: mandalorian is the blame the production, whether it's production or
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  Speaker 2: just in the jump in the character. I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if we'll see Katie Sackoff come back to play Bokaton.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it's I hate to see that, right
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  Speaker 1: like you hate to see that happen. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that lucasfilm as a whole, especially Dave Filoni. They need
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  Speaker 1: to open up to the world that they're building, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, you have things like, for instance, the big
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  Speaker 1: talk of the town right now on the internet is
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  Speaker 1: brand New Day Spider Man. You have set photos and
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  Speaker 1: set photos and set photos. You have conversations of that
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  Speaker 1: young woman from Stranger Things I don't know. Yes, there's
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  Speaker 1: speculation of who her character is, and there's oh, rumor
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  Speaker 1: says this, rumor says, this rumor says this. There's a
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  Speaker 1: constant conversation, which in turn will lead to some people
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  Speaker 1: getting disappointed because not every rumor is going to be true.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the really silly thing is that Lucasfilm
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  Speaker 1: is afraid to let people down. Yep, what is the problem?
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  Speaker 3: Because you look at like.
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  Speaker 2: At like Avengers Endgame, where the Russo brothers were like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: somebody actually guessed the ending or the start of endgame,
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  Speaker 2: and so we had to completely change things because we
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  Speaker 2: didn't want it guessed.
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  Speaker 3: So what that person doesn't know the right until they came.
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  Speaker 1: To the screen, and it's it's it's so silly and
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  Speaker 1: so dumb. Because what you need to understand Lucasfilm is
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  Speaker 1: you may have billions to your name, millions to your name.
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  Speaker 1: But you do not have the privilege currently of getting
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  Speaker 1: to be picky right now. There is so much expectation
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  Speaker 1: of what's to come with the Ryan gobs On the film,
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  Speaker 1: with the Daisy Ridley film, with the James Mangle film. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there is a lot of pressure. But guess what, do
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  Speaker 1: you know what's gonna get people excited regardless of what
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  Speaker 1: happens in the movie, if you let people in, if
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  Speaker 1: you get.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about Star Wars.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about the film, you talk, you talk, you talk,
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  Speaker 1: you talk. Now do we need to know the entire film?
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  Speaker 1: No seeds crumbs. This is how people do it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, y'all, We're gonna hit our first ad break
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  Speaker 2: and we will be right back in three two one.
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  Speaker 1: It's very, very simple.
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  Speaker 2: And it's something that I think Star Wars is struggling
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  Speaker 2: to understand. It's struggling to move into that twenty first century.
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  Speaker 2: And I say twenty first century. I've struggled to move
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  Speaker 2: into the social media craze of everything, Like people do
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  Speaker 2: struggle with that, but businesses as a whole can't afford
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  Speaker 2: to do that. And like, any publicity is good publicity,
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  Speaker 2: and the more people talk about Star Wars, the more
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  Speaker 2: people are going to be excited for the film.
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  Speaker 1: Like, honestly, as as somebody who is literally married to
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  Speaker 1: a social media manager, who is who is somebody who
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  Speaker 1: is always on the Internet, I have absorbed that, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why I've taken it upon myself to jump on
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  Speaker 1: the Star Wars Alliance social media and the Ranger Alliance
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  Speaker 1: social media because I am learning these things from my wife. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: there was no better day for social media this week
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  Speaker 1: then yesterday. Yesterday's proposal Yesterday was I'm sorry, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and say it. I didn't see anything
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  Speaker 1: from Star Wars the thing. The only thing I saw
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  Speaker 1: was from fan accounts because I posted it in the
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: Star Wars Alliance Twitter DMS was the oh our English
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  Speaker 1: teacher and gym teacher, and it was Princess Leah and
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: the Scoundrel the the children's book illustration. I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's perfect. Somebody literally gave you a layup and Star
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  Speaker 1: Wars didn't take it. Like, I don't want why why.
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  Speaker 2: It's so mind blowing to me because you look at
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  Speaker 2: and like people will talk about the intern that runs
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  Speaker 2: the social media account, the intern that runs the Star
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  Speaker 2: Wars social media account. I feel it goes through waves
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  Speaker 2: and is like, oh, I don't want to get fired.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I'm perfectly fine with getting fired. And I I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying there's an intern brunning the Star Wars social
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  Speaker 2: media account, by the way, because.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it started to take it, but it's the terminology. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I get it, I understand.
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  Speaker 3: And they're worried about getting fired. They're not worried about
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  Speaker 3: it fired.
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  Speaker 1: And we tell through these.
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  Speaker 2: Waves where there's hype on the Star Wars social media
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  Speaker 2: and then we go through months where there's no hype.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And to circle this all back to Kittye Sakoff,
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  Speaker 1: it's the fact that and we've said it this entire time,
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  Speaker 1: but Star Wars needs Lucasfilm, and I think maybe somewhat
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  Speaker 1: even Disney. I think Disney has seen Marvel and the
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  Speaker 1: MCU and they're like, Okay, y'all have free ring to
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  Speaker 1: do whatever you want. Hey, Star Wars. You know there's
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  Speaker 1: some controversy, so you may need to lay back. And
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  Speaker 1: so it might be Disney, but regardless either or hey,
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  Speaker 1: if I was in Lucasfilm, if I was in charge
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  Speaker 1: of social media, and Disney said, hey, tone it down
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. I would turn that shit to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, like I would say, hey, f this, I'm
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  Speaker 1: probably getting fired for this. But people need to get
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  Speaker 1: hyped for these types of things. And with Katie's character,
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  Speaker 1: with the writing style and people, a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: will hear this and be like, oh, well, that's not
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  Speaker 1: even lucasfilm, that's not Disney, that's all Dave Filoni. We
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  Speaker 1: are not one hundred percent sure on that. We can't
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  Speaker 1: put the soul blame on Dave Filoni. Now would we
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  Speaker 1: like to, probably with the way that the writing went.
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  Speaker 1: But it wasn't just the Mandalorian. Isn't something that's just
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  Speaker 1: Dave Filoni, that's Jon Fabreeau. Also, so we don't know
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  Speaker 1: who's who's fifty, who's forty nine percent, you know, like
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  Speaker 1: don't we don't know all of that. And I think.
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  Speaker 2: Ultimate goal at the end of it is that we
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  Speaker 2: want Lucas to have a little more flexibility in sharing
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  Speaker 2: these storylines with the characters that are known for portraying it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like that's all at the end of the day. You
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  Speaker 2: want Bocaton to come back and be a part of
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  Speaker 2: the Galaxy Far Far away and have her moment in
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  Speaker 2: the spotlight. Well, then share where her character's going at
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  Speaker 2: the end of it instead of surprising them for fan
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  Speaker 2: service moments. Because let's all be real, pretending that you
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  Speaker 2: were acting that you were that Plokun was the rescue
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  Speaker 2: in Mandalorian season two, You're not gonna have the same
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  Speaker 2: result as rescue with Luke Skywalker. Like, and you can say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't want Katie Sakoff or Pedro Pascal fanboying fangirling
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  Speaker 2: over Mark Hamill, but like, also at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: Luke Skywalker is a hero in the Galaxy, he's fanboyd
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  Speaker 2: over regardless.
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  Speaker 1: Well not only that, guys, these are professionals, m Like,
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  Speaker 1: and I get it. Of a lot of people, there's
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  Speaker 1: probably gonna be an argument of oh what about Mark
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  Speaker 1: and Tom Holland and all the people that have you know,
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  Speaker 1: accidentally screwed up things for MCU. Yeah, mistakes happen, but
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  Speaker 1: you can't immediately like, do you know how unprofessional it
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  Speaker 1: is to assume that everybody's gonna fuck up? Like that's
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  Speaker 1: not cool.
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  Speaker 2: Like, So.
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  Speaker 1: All in all, when down to the nitty gritty, the
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  Speaker 1: main lesson learned here is Lucasfilm, Disney Star Wars. If
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  Speaker 1: you have a built in story for said characters and
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  Speaker 1: that story plays a indirect part in a story that
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  Speaker 1: a actor has to play, give that story to that actor.
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  Speaker 1: Because Katie Sakoff would have had probably so much more
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  Speaker 1: confidence in playing those parts. It wouldn't have been as
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote dull or empty or whatever people may have
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  Speaker 1: described that performance to be. I enjoyed her character because
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  Speaker 1: I love her as an actress. So that's just me,
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  Speaker 1: And I know that there was there is a huge
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  Speaker 1: fan base that just is as crazy for Katie Sackoff
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  Speaker 1: as people are for freaking Taylor Swift or Rhea Ripley
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  Speaker 1: and wwe like there's there's like wasn't she saying on
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  Speaker 1: her podcast like right after season three that like people
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  Speaker 1: were saying like, hey, can you sit on my face?
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  Speaker 1: And like all these like really weird things Like it's
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  Speaker 1: just hey, people enjoy people, Okay, uh But yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: just I just think that hopefully this does come out,
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  Speaker 1: and I think it has. I think that there has
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  Speaker 1: been enough noise that this has reached Lucasfilm. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: I hope that Dave Felony really sits on this and
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  Speaker 1: it's like, hey, maybe maybe I should change some things,
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  Speaker 1: or Star Wars says, hey, maybe we should change some things.
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  Speaker 2: Because Katie Sakoff is incredible and she's brought a lot
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  Speaker 2: of life to Bokaton making her who she is, and
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  Speaker 2: I would hate to see any other actor take on
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  Speaker 2: the role at this point, just because of what she's
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  Speaker 2: brought to the character and what she has apparently gone
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  Speaker 2: through to give us that character in live action. So
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  Speaker 2: we love you, Katie Sakoff. Hopefully you get your confidence back,
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully seeing this talked about helps give you the
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  Speaker 2: voice that you need to talk to Lucasfilm if there's
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  Speaker 2: anything there.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: The second piece of news comes from Visions Star Wars
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  Speaker 1: Visions season three. We got the main poster.
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  Speaker 3: I'm presenting it now, there we go.
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  Speaker 1: I think it is interesting that they went with the
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  Speaker 1: rom numeral three compared to the actual number three, because
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was Vision season two. Yeah, it was
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  Speaker 1: actual English number. Uh uh what do you? How do
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  Speaker 1: you feel about this? How do you how do you
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  Speaker 1: feel about this visual? Here?
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  Speaker 2: I do love the poster for the most part. I
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  Speaker 2: love getting to see all the different animations to play
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  Speaker 2: there does look like there's some more standardized animation in
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  Speaker 2: this season, but it looks.
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  Speaker 3: Like there's going to be a lot of bright colors.
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  Speaker 2: And some different opera themes, like these these Stormtroopers here
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  Speaker 2: under the Samurai Jedi, the Duel guy. I do have
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  Speaker 2: one critique here, and this is probably just because I
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  Speaker 2: know that we have three returning characters or three returning
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  Speaker 2: story forms, and we're coming. We have the Duel in
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  Speaker 2: this top left corner. We have the ninth Jedi in
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  Speaker 2: the top right corner h and then we have Village
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  Speaker 2: Bride down here.
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  Speaker 3: In the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Yes, I get.
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  Speaker 2: This guy up here in top middle, and I am
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  Speaker 2: presenting guys. If you're listening, I do apologize, but this
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  Speaker 2: is the poster that's out right now, so you can
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  Speaker 2: go follow along the top middle this Spider guy. Probably
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  Speaker 2: for symmetry reasons and the fact that they wanted his
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: arms or claws or whatever they are spread out. He
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  Speaker 2: probably needed to be in the middle to not throw
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  Speaker 2: everything else off, and he probably needed to.
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  Speaker 1: Be at the top mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: But because I know that we have three returning characters,
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  Speaker 2: I want the Village Ride up here in the middle.
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  Speaker 1: At the top at the top. Yeah, I think that
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  Speaker 1: would have been a really nice, uh thematic thing kind
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  Speaker 1: of just saying like, hey, these three paved the way
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  Speaker 1: for you know. I think that would be that would
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  Speaker 1: have been pretty cool. I could also see this like
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's like a like you said, a spider,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: but it's like a spider stormtrooper like amalgam thing. I
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: almost think it would have been better if he was
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: at the very bottom.
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because kind of like his inner down at the bottom.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Exactly, but also his arms would his arms kind of
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: would have been like almost like rounding out the circle
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: of where it says Star Wars visions, which I think
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: would have been pretty cool. But yeah, I for the
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: most part, looking at all of these different art styles,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I am liking what I am seeing. I don't know
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: why in the Village Bride their lightsabers have these like
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: very weird like almost.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Sorce Field type things.
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's surrounding their lightsabers. That didn't happen in the
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Village Bride, So I don't know why it's doing it here.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: And it may just be like kind of like how
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: like just light hitting the lightsaber it kind of makes
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: it look like there's more of an aura around.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Them or whatever.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: We're going to go into our second ad break and
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: we'll be right.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Back, okay, whatever. I have heard some things about this
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: storm trooper.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this poster came out at anime New York
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: City Comic Con, and the Stormtrooper one was actually the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: main focus.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Which is called Black.
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: I think yes, And I'm gonna switch my screen real fast.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: We're just gonna share the window. So this is off
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: of the Star Wars news Net article.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Guys.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: So this is one of the images from the preview
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: of Black that was shown at the comic con. So
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: we've got all of these different eyes and the green
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: and the red storm Trooper. It's supposed to be very
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: operatic and kind of focusing on the music.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Also very kind of like psychedelic.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I think people who are familiar with anime should get
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: excited for this because the people involved in making Black
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: also are credited for critically acclaimed Akira and Spirited Away.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: These two films kind of are literal pillars when it
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: comes to cinematic anime films. So I think this one
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: is gonna be very very interesting. And I just now
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: realized literally just looking at the screen while I was
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: saying that the reflection shows somebody who looks like probably
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a Jedi. Oh yeah, so that might actually be somebody
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: who's undercover, like somebody who's wearing Stormtrooper. Yeah, that's cool,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: That is really cool. I literally just noticed that while
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I was talking. So I think it's gonna be a
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: lot of fun, guys. This does come out October twenty ninth.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: We are two months out from season three of Visions,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: which is going to be super exciting. Now, yeah, we'll.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Probably we'll probably do like an overall thoughts on the thirtieth,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: but then we'll go into November and December because it
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: got a lot in November, but December we'll probably tackle
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: three shorts at a time, doing like a deeper dive.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Just to kind of give you guys a heads up.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say the drop is on a Wednesday,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: so it is going to be dropping a day that
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: we do go live. So it'll be interesting to see if,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: or like when they decide to drop it, whether it's
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: going to be another two am drop or if this
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: is going to be something that drops at nine pm.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: So yeah, that's the big question.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So well, because each season so far has been
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: a two am drop like last year last year's or
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: not last year's it was two years ago. Sorry. Vision
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Season two.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Was a.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: It was a two am drop as well, So I
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: hopefully everything recently has been a like afternoon evening drop recently,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: so hopefully they have changed their ways and they're deciding
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to drop it. But I there's no way I would
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: love for them to be a weekly drop. Yeah, if
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: they had just suddenly and now'ced like, hey, we want
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: to keep the conversation going, these are going to drop
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: once a week, I think that would be phenomenal, like honestly,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: and some people may be upset for the fact that
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: like these probably won't warrant a weekly drop, but like
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: hey podcasters here.
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, even like three at a time would be better.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: But I am currently predicting that it's going to be
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: a two am drop and it's going to be all
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: nine episodes, So yeah, it is what it is.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Well, well, it all depends because from if my memory
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: serves me correctly, I think one of the shortest episodes
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: of Visions is like like what like five minutes long.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: It's very short, where whereas the longest one I think
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: was twenty I was gonna say the ninth Jedi ended
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: up being somewhere close to thirty minutes long. So you know,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: hopefully I want there to be a good amount of
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: content for people to have these conversations to make it
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: last a little bit. But I can see them, you know,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: kind of dropping them in tears as far as like
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the time goes like, I could see, you know, the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: duel being a thirty minute one, whereas Black maybe only
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: ten to fifteen minutes, and then the next one will
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: be five minutes, and then you know, so on and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: so forth. So I can see that happening.
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, last bit of news. This will be
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: a very interesting one considering I do not have Audible currently.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Now again I will I for the podcast. I have
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: no problem, you know, reactivating my Audible account for us
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: to do this. But there is a new Audible original
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: coming in October.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: Ninth.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, there is a specific date October ninth that is
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: called Star Wars The Jaws of Jack Who by Cavin Scott.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I am very excited for this.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong. I do think George Man's audio
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: dramas have been good. But I do think Calvin Scott's
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: audio dramas have been my favorite for Star Wars, so
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: this is exciting. Plus, I know Calvin has always wanted
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: to write a Ray story, and so I know this
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: means a lot to him in getting to talk about
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: and especially with his daughter. So this audio original is
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: taking place after the Last Jedi and it follows Ray,
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: who is struggling to let go of her lonely childhood
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: on the desert planet of Jacu. Hoping to have a
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: breakthrough in her Jedi training, she returns to her home
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: world with Finn and BB eight in tow when they
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: meet a young girl on a dangerous mission to save
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: her family. They travel through pitch black tunnels beneath the sand,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: where they encounter scurrying gnaw jaws, a haunting terror from
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: the past, and maybe just maybe hope for them all.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: There's really not too much to say it on this
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: is probably gonna be another five hour audio book.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: It actually has the time limit right underneath. H oh
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: it is a three hour and fifty three minute audible original.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: This does kind of track with all of the Star
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Wars audible originals. They've been anywhere between the three to
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: six hour mark. I believe the uh the Obi wan
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: Anakin one was a little bit on the longer side
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: comparatively to the High Republic ones that we reviewed earlier
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: this year. But yeah, this one is just rounding up
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: to four hours. I think that's a good enough story, you.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Know, yeah, especially for a middle grade book, and returning
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: to Jack, who should be really interesting, especially through a
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: pair of fresh eyes. The non Jaws in particular are
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: from the Force Awakens publishing initiative that took place in
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen, or I think it was twenty fifteen. Actually, okay,
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: the Star Wars Moves Net doesn't have it, but non
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: Jaws are a creature from the uh Ray's Survival guide
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: book by Jason fry So.
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: Kevin Scott loves his deep cuts.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but very nice. Yeah.
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: So obviously with Clay not having Audible, we'll kind of
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: play this review by ear guys, but we.
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Will let you know when it goes into the pipeline.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, and and honestly, like genuinely if it drops
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: on October night, that can very easily just set up
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: a reminder. Hey, October ninth, renew Audible. I listen to it.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: We review it I get rid of audible again. And
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: that's honestly, guys. The reason why I'm doing it is,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: for one, Amazon has been kind of scummy as a corporation.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: But I'm also saving a lot of money. A lot
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: of my audio books I am either checking checking out
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: on libby or personally, because I want to own the
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: actual audio books that I purchased, I've been purchasing them
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: off of libro dot FM. So that's genuinely been you know,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: my course of action when it comes to audiobooks. But
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I believe that is it for our news segments.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Yes, all right, it's time to talk about the High
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: Republic Adventures Volume four, and we're about to jump into
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: our third ad y'all.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: We promise we'll be right back.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: We promise. This does contain the issues fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen,
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: as well as the Battle of Ariadu. So I did
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: not read issue seventeen like I thought I was going to,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and it took forever for my digital copy of Battle
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: of Ariadu to download. For some reason, I attempted to
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: download it like three different times, and for some reason,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: my phone just didn't want to download it. So I
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: thought I was gonna have to jump into this, you know,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: episode with Katie just explaining everything. But thankfully I got
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: it to download and I read everything earlier today, Katie.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Overall thoughts, how did you feel about this segment of
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: the High Republic. So?
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: I really enjoyed these.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: It was consistent artwork all except for the Battle Ariada,
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: which is written by Listen. The rest of so it's
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: written by Daniel Josey Older for fourteen fifteen sixteen, illustrated
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: by Harvey Tolabao, Tony Bruno, and Elisa Rumboley, and then
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: we have colors by Michael Atilla and Dan Jackson and
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: then lettered by Comic Crafts Tyler Smith and Jimmy Bettencourt.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna announciate the company or whatever it is it
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: again it is.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: It is just something that the comic book Space does
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: every single time, and it just sounds weird when you
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: don't say it. I'm sorry, but I really enjoyed these
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: as well. And honestly, guys, because of our conversation UH
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: two weeks ago in regards to UH the dispatches of
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: the Occlusion.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Zone coming out next week, Guys, when play goes out
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: on vacation.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Yes, uh, we actually recorded it a little early. We
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: spoilers for that conversation. I was not happy with the
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: portion that had to deal with Driggate and kind of
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: teasing the ending of Driggate and Gavy's story, and so
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I came into this book wanting to hate that story,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: and I didn't hate it.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Really did an incredible job with the Battle of Iriatu.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: I would be interested because we know there's going to
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: be an omnibus for the High Republic Adventures Phase three.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: I would be extremely interested in getting that and having
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: all of the High Republic Adventures comics lined up appropriately.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: In timeline order, so not.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Having Adventures by Danie jose Older and then we have
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: the one shots and then we have well.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: I would be curious to see how they're going to decide,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: like how that is how the layout of that book
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: is going to be, because I agree, I think that
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: it only makes sense to put it in timeline order.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And people may think, oh, well, wouldn't that be release order.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: No, no, not at all, because guys, you need to understand,
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: with these types of initiatives, they have to work around
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: a book release schedule as well.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: So because of that comics come out monthly, whereas books
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: don't come out for like a whole year and a
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: half or whatever. So there's some things that are gonna
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: be staggered. There's things that are gonna have to be delayed,
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: there's things that are gonna come out early. And you're like, hey,
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: what is this reference to? And then you read the
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: book and you're like, oh, Okay, now I understand what
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: that comic was saying. Yeah, So I just I really
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: do hope that they decide, hey, if people are going
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: to want to read this entire High Republic initiative, it
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: may be a little helpful if we lay this out
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: in a timeline order.
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, because I mean, honestly, I would probably go sell
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: my trades and pick up the omnibus because that's what
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: I did for Phase one, because they didn't release a
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: trade for volume three, so I went ahead and grabbed
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: the Omnibus and then I sold my trades. So I
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: would basically do the same thing here because I think
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: that would benefit the story so much to be all
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: of the issues in timeline order.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, I agree.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: I really love the artwork in this. I think Harvey
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: does an incredible job. The way I picture Zene Maralla
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: now always has to be how Harvey draws her, like
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: point blank. There is no ifs, answer butts about it.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: Some of the UH covers by fan artists have also
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: been really good, like the cherryel one. I do love
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: her in that, but Harvey's zine is the best. I
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: also finally got curious with the weapon that Lula is holding,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: because I did not remember this being explained. I thought
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: that she all of a sudden had a duel sighted
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: orange lightsaber staff thing. This is that I did not
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: realize until the cover. There is no orange on either.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: Side of this. This is a.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Vibro staff vibra well, yeah, because it's called a vibra blade,
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: and then when you have dual bladed, yeah, it is
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: called a vibro staff. That's right.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: And so the orange is the vibro blade happening. And
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: the weapons that Zeine uses is not the same thing.
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: It's just electric staff things. I forgot what it was
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: called already, and I looked it up, of all things,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: but I always thought, oh, she's just moved on and
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: her lightsaber has changed color.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: No, that's not the case.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's kind of misleading, and so a lot
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: of fans. I was introduced to viral blades and Vibro
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: staffs in the game of Knights of the Old Republic.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: In those games, there is like the way to depict
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: why vibral blades are able to kind of withstand even
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: that of an attack of a lightsaber is because it
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: has like a certain aura around it. And that's what
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: this orange thing is. So I'm actually gonna show it
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: on the YouTube. There she is right there, it's kind
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: of it. And you're right, it is orange. There's like
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: orange sparks, and so when you first look at it,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, she has an orange lightsaber, but it
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: is a vibro staff. You are correct, Yeah.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: And I don't I don't think in canon currently vibro
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: weapons can with stand lightsabers.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Just letting you know, I don't think.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. That is true. Of course they they
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: they did that in the video game because it just
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: would be way too broken of a video game for
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: the character to be able to just get a lightsaber
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: and then just like not have anything kind of challenge
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: that character. Uh, but yeah, in actual canon, vibro blades
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: and Vibro staffs and anything Vibro cannot withstand lightsabers, gotcha.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I do love this splash page. You had held
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: up the one side on your phone just now. Yeah,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: but this splash page where they're crossing the river and
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: you have the Jedi side with the nie.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: I really love the color pop, even even when you
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: look at my phone, just the way, yeah, just the
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: way that they were able to really make everything pop here.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Because when I first looked at it, for one, the
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: very first thing that my eyes gravitate towards is of
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: course every single lightsaber the I immediately start looking at
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: the hilts. But I love the ocean. I love the
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: blue of the ocean. I think it really pops. It
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: really does stand as like a literal separation piece for
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: the splash page, which is really really fun. But yeah,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: really great colors. I love the art in this book.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: And this should be our final ad break. So y'all
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: thanks for bearing with us. We appreciate y'all. We'll be
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: right back. It really is superb. The other thing that
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: I enjoyed in this was getting to learn more about
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: how the Warden joined up with General Wise and just
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: kind of getting more exposure to his character. What did
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: you think about.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: That, I hate the warden. I hate the word he is, like, honestly,
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: he is. Ever since he's been introduced, he's kind of
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: just been like I've had this type of feeling that
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: he is just the annoying villain that will eventually get
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: his come uppings, right yep, And that's really all he's
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: really been good at playing in every story that he's
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: been a part of so far. And I did enjoy
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: that as well. I love the kind of background. I
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: know we're not gonna get too much more because again,
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: like for the most part.
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: We have one more volume left.
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: High Republic has ended. But I do like how they
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: are able to connect those dots because you're not just
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: gonna be Marcian wrote, and just trust some random o body,
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: yeah to lead a portion of your galactic takeover, you know.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: So to have those connections I think is very very fun,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: very smart. But yeah, I enjoyed his parts. I also
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: again wanted to hate Driggott's parts. I wanted to because
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: because of course just the way that I read them.
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: I read it fourteen fifteen sixteen, and then I read
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Battle Viriatu.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: Yep, so that's how I read it as well.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: So like reading hers. I'm just reminded of our conversation
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: from two weeks ago. I'm like, they're not gonna They're
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: not gonna give me the proper ending that I want.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna hate this, like, uh, you know, I I
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I know what her character is gonna end up doing
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: and blah blah blah whatever. Uh but no, I just
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed it.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: I think Driggate was originally Alyssa Long's character, so jose
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Older wanted to give a list of.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: The chance to finish Drigate story off.
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Daniel as always does an incredible job with his writing.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: I really do.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Love the story here and the dread that you feel
• 48:23
  Speaker 2: as everything goes on. I love the moment where the
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Republic Armada comes through right at the end. So I'm
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: looking forward to seeing how volume five really finishes it off,
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: because clearly the Ward has one last attack under his sleeve,
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: and so we'll get that there well.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: And I do want to ask you because they are
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: playing a really, you know, kind of ominous feeling with
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: this and I I do think we are going to
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: get some closure on this last volume. Master for Azala,
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: how did you like Farzala's like existential dread throughout this entire.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: I did enjoy it because I felt like he's really
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: grown as a character, and I appreciate that Daniel has
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: not left him behind like some of the other characters
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: from Phase one have happened. I also like the Master
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: or oh gosh, it's the Tentacle guy.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: Yes, it was in the very beginning attuck of issue fourteen.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah was it fourteen? Yeah?
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, well or Brittuck.
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: I loved that little moment with young Farzala in the
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: ants of the Plate and that.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: How like you always need to keep moving.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: I do think that's super important in a fighting style,
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: so getting that exposure to him was super cool. Farzala
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: is definitely interesting. I do want to see more of him,
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: and I do think that Lula and Zine kind of
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: got sidelined for him, just simply because they Daniel wanted
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: to focus on a Jedi story.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, but to be fair, they just got done a
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: big arc for the most part, I think their story
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: is over really, yes, and no, I still think there
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: is a lot to kind of like, there's like maybe
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: one or two loose ends for them. Yeah, but I
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: think their story was their love story and so for
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: them to be married and they're like, Okay, let's go
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: save the universe together. You know, I think that within
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: itself is kind of like their happy ending. I'm not
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: saying that their happy ending, can't you know, just abruptly end.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: Right I.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: And I guess this comes from my book sense of you.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: If you put two characters in the main focus.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: You should have them. Yea, they I totally, I totally
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: get it. I get it.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: It's also I do know with comments you have, like
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: other covers and whatnot, But to me, the trade you
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: picked the one that represents the story of the best.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: Yoda's not even in this story? Why?
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: And so here's here's here's the thing, Katie. One thing
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: that for the most part, comics have stopped doing this
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: because there was such a harsh backlash. There used to
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: be a time where publishers would literally put characters that
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: they knew would catch people's eyes. They would purposely put
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: those characters on the cover, or they would put a
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: really dramatic scene happening on the cover and people would
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: be like, oh crap, Batman's getting his head chopped off.
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: Why is that happening? And then you'd grab the book
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: and there would be nothing related to the cover. So
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: that used to be a really popular thing to do
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: in comics. They don't do it very much anymore because
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: back in I want to say, like twenty nineteen, twenty twenty,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Brian Michael Bindis, who famously helped co create Miles Morales,
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: he helped co create Ironheart, like he helped create a
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: lot of characters in Marvel. He left Marvel went to DC.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: A lot of people did not like his writing style
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: for DC characters, and I was one of them. I
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: did not like his style for the DC universe, but
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: his books were tanking. Nobody was reading them, and so
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: there was like a string of like five books Katie
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: that covers were just absolutely ridiculous, and people were like,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what's happening in this book? And it
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: was it was you might as well have put a
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Powerpuff Girls cover on like a freaking Etrican the Demon
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: comic like it would have. It was like totally black
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: and white, and so people were so confused, they were furious.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: They and so DC and other publishers stopped doing that.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: They really stopped, so honestly, to see it on this cover,
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: I was a little surprised because Zeane was kind of
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: in the background. Yoda was literally nowhere in this comic whatsoever.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: YadA was the only one that appeared. So yeah, I agree.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: I understand the concept of oh, I'm gonna judge a
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: book by its cover. I like these characters, I'm gonna
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: grab it for these characters, and then you read it
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: and you're like, hey, where were these characters?
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: Yep, And this is like they're very like traditional outfits
• 54:50
  Speaker 2: from earlier in the series two because the whole fourteen,
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: fifteen and sixteen they're in their wedding dresses.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: I love that, by the way, I love you ze
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Zine in that blue like bluish Teale dress kicking ass,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: by the way, absolutely love it. Gorgeous. But I love
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: the consistency. I love that these editors were not lazy
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: and they're not like, oh, just put these characters in whatever.
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: They're like, hey, they just got off of their web,
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: they just left their wedding, so they have to be
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: in these dresses. I love that absolutely, Or.
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: If you were to, if they were to have changed,
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: they definitely needed to have a scene like okay, let's
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: get ready for battle.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: But like, yeah, I didn't do that. I love the
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: dresses element because it gives it.
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Like and don't get me wrong, I think there's plenty
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: of femininity in these comics, but it just gives it
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: that extra air like, Hey, I'm a girl, I'm gonna dress, I'm.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Gonna heels, and I'm still gonna kick ass, you know
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: I I yeah, I love it, especially when they made
• 56:03
  Speaker 1: it such a big deal in that splash page of
• 56:06
  Speaker 1: I believe it was issue thirteen or it was the
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: wedding issue, one of the two where they're like, Okay,
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: Wedding's over, let's go fight, and like the whole splash
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: page is everybody from the wedding like with their weapons
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: and they're like taking charge towards uh uh or like
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: yeah exactly. So like I I love the consistency. I
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: think it's really really fun. It's great. So yeah, I
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: I have really been enjoying this, trying to think of
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: there's any character before we get to the battle, they eond,
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: did you.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: See sinoubebe uh from the yes?
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes, hold on yes, this is what I
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: wanted to bring up. Hold on, hold on, So okay,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: and I love that it's literally three panels Okay, you
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: don't see him for the rest of the book, but
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: the jaw dropping moment of his reveal and then the
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: very next panel you see him in he's just like, oh, yeah,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: so I was undercover. How about you, young padawan, and
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: then like something like explodes and then like it moved,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: like the scene just changes, like you don't get any
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: explanation whatsoever, like, and that's kind of why I wanted
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: to be like, what the hell like?
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: So Sinube was SAB's master.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Yes, so he does a lot of appearances in the
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: High Republic Adventures Face two.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: He's in like seven issues there. I don't remember him.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: God damn. He's just as old as freaking Yoda yep
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: until he gets you know, rip like that serious.
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this should be our final ad break. So
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: y'all thanks for bearing with us. We appreciate y'all. We'll
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: be right back. So yeah, I was like, wait, Sydney
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Bays here. I had to go back to Wikipedia and
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: go wait, where did we know he was alive? This
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: is like the big thing with going back and forth
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: between so many things is like you forget about these characters.
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: So I don't hate Sanubab being here now, I kind
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: of went In Emeric and Sinewbae side comic because they're
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: both Jedi investigators. Yeah.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: I And the thing is, you cannot This is Lucas
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: Phil Marvel, whoever is in charge of of the overarching
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: stories of these characters. We are introduced to the carearacter
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: of Yoda in a New Hope, and then Empire strikes back.
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: He dies, and we learn that he's like nearly a
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: thousand years old, okay, and so you're like, holy crap,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: this dude has lived for a very long time. And
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: ever since then, we have learned that there's more and
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: more characters and alien species within the Star Wars galaxy
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: that can live just as long. Look at me, look
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: at me, got Filoni Favra, whoever, whoever, whoever found this podcast,
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: look at me right now. I need more of these stories, okay,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: and I want actual concrete stories. Okay, sonoube like he
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: just like appeared. I need like I need like an arc.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: I need like you know, we we we've teased and
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: we've and we've made fun of like, oh, we're eventually
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: going to get that you know, young Jedi night Yoda,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: you know comic. Eventually, somebody's gonna be brave enough to
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: pitch it, and they're gonna let him do it. If
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna be brave enough to publish a young
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Yoda comic, then you need to do it with these
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: other characters that are just as old. Yep. Like, I
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: think it's only fair like to because because you know
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: what you oh my gosh, you can do that. And
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: then like you have young Snube as a padawan and
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: guess who his best friend is, Yoda, but he's only
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: in a small appearance. You see him in the background
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: training with him, and you have him mentioned oh yeah,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: you know, you know, me and Yoda were hanging out,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: you know, in the in the library and in the archives,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: blah blah blah, and people are like, oh my god,
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: young Yoda, you know. So like I think it needs
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: to happen legitimately. I was so pumped when I saw
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: him in this book, like I was, and it was
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: just like a like I said, three panels, it was
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: literally three panels, and then they just threw it away,
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: you know, And I'm just lingering here, like.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: It is definitely an easter egg for what's to come,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: or like a policement where they can go back in
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: five years and go, you know what, I'm gonna rape
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: the story of how Snoope got in those drill ships. Yeah, oh,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: the other thing that I had an issue with in
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: this one. So they are still going on about the
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: volcano that we find out about and dispatches and what's
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: her name? Severn Tarkan says, hey, I really need a
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Jedi to go fix.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: It, and.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: She's like, oh, here it is. Okay, it's this one
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: right in the right in the beginning.
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: This, yeah, and.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: A court goes and we need a team to stay here.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: In brief, frank, uh, there's an urgent mechanical situation that
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: needs attending. If only Ram was here. Where is Ram
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: because wasn't he at the wedding?
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: So yes, But if you go to the back of
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 1: the book and go into the battle, Ariadu Gavy explains
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: where everybody is. So currently at this point in time,
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Ram is with uh Zene. Wait, what the hell he
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: should be there? Because he literally says Ram is with
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: Zene and Lula, Yeah, And that doesn't make sense.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: And I think it was just.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: A way of going, Okay, we really don't want in.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 3: Like to fix the mechanical situation with I think so.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: I think because it could have very easily Like it is,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: they're setting up a challenge for themselves there there. It's
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: literally the plot is the reason why Ram is not there,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: like that is the only reason is because the plot
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: cannot have him there.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: I need to pull up the wedding is God.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: Okay, volume three? So okay, here's the big giant splash page.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: Yes, the very next page, you should see him. If
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: it's not. If it's not the very next page, then
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: it was the page before, like before they actually like
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 1: had the ceremony. I am pretty sure Lula and Zeene
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: are talking to Ram well be yeah, because.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: He's the one who brought Gaviy.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, you continue, because I'm gonna find this.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I I I thought because literally I just said,
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: I genuinely thought that they had him go somewhere else.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: And that's why Gaby was like, oh and you know,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: I still feel connected to all of my friends because
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: this is how I, you know, see the force and
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: everything else. Right. Yeah, but yeah, the fact that Ram
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: is not there is literally just for the sake of hey,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: we can't have this problem fixed in three panels, so
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: we have to just kind of erase ramp for a second.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: So there's the pirate granddaughter, and there's Gabby.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, oh, because also in the dispatches from the Eclusion Zone,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: Ram is also there. Yeah, he is? Is he's there?
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: Uh so I unfortunately continuity errors, guys, it happens from
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: time to time.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: Okay, so yes, it is a continuity issue. So okay.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 2: So here's Gabby where he comes into contact with Lula
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: and and I think Zine says Vallo, where's Ram is he?
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 3: Okay? Uh?
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: He got called away on an urgent mission after helping
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 2: us liberate Valo again. But he sent me and the
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: pirates here to warn you that the ward is on
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: his way back. So where's Ram?
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 3: Because he wasn't in Trials of the Jedi.
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: Ram again, from what I can remember, he was with
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: Zeene or not Zene? Sorry? Who is the uh? Uh?
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: The the uh Gabby? No, uh Zile? Sorry, I knew
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: it was with.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: Zile, the granddaughter pirate.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes, the last time we saw Ram was with Zile,
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: and that was in the dispatches of the Occlusion Zone
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: in Eriodu City. Like it is, it is literally all there.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: Katie just ran to her shelf to grab dispatches. Uh,
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: just to confirm, just read this one.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: Okay, So there's Court and there's Ram with Yep. Court
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 2: is basically reporting on everybody's movements.
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: Yep, like it is. It's simply just that unfortunately they
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: did they did not write a scenario where Ram had
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 1: to leave. They just forgot that he was there, or
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: they quote unquote forgot he was there.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, So there's issue too with Driggett. And he's not
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: in this one. He's not going to be in the
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: emeric one. No, Rams, that's the only part Ram is in.
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 1: This and that one panel. Yeah, that can't be trip.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: That is true.
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, I have no idea that I don't
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: know why.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: So Wikipedia has him in the Battle of the Aria.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: It is a vision to Gabby. Yeah, he's in fourteen
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 2: and fifteen as imagination like imaginative appearance.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: He's in seventeen, which is not in this one.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: It's in the next volume, and then he's in nineteen
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: and twenty.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: So maybe we'll learn what happens to Ban next time.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll just have to wait and see.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: Sorry, guys, that was a ginormous detour. But I was like,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: who the fuck is ramped.
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: But uh, other other than that, I think that the
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: only place to go forward in this conversation is the
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Battle of Riado. Gabby, drink it rue. As I said
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: in the very beginning of this review, I genuinely wanted
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: to kind of hate this ending for Gavy and drigg
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: it because I didn't feel satisfied with the build up
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: to what this will eventually be. Yep, I like it.
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: Even in the very first few pages, I was like,
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: I don't like it. I don't like like, this doesn't
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 1: make any sense, blah blah, oh here's ja well. Uh
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: like I was kind of mocking it, And then as
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: I was ready to get I was like, God, damn it,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: this is so good. I I and maybe to to
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: the freaking talent that is Alyssa Long, I think she
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: has a great voice for for Driggate. They sorry, I
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: think I think they have a great voice for Driggate.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: We did not like we we knew, but we didn't know,
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: and it was kind of convoluted with Driggate story and
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: what they really wanted from going to the Dark Side
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: to going with the night Hill. Right. We learned in
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: Escape from Valow that she betrayed her friends, and that
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 1: even then it presented it as like I'm only doing
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: this because I hate the Night Hill, and You're like, Okay,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: what the hell does that even mean? And so we
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: were like, Okay, we're on board with this, let's learn
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: more about it. And unfortunately, just with the way our
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: schedules have lined up with the release schedules of these books,
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: we haven't been able to really catch up on that
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: until now, and so we really did feel like, hey, like,
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: there's not much here. How are they really gonna end
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: this story between Drink and Gavy to feel fulfilled? And
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: literally within like three pages of the back and forth
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  Speaker 1: of like you see drigg It and then you see Gabby,
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  Speaker 1: and then you see drigg It and then you see Gavvy,
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  Speaker 1: and then eventually there's that one page where they're literally
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  Speaker 1: face to face. I like, I wanted to throw my
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  Speaker 1: phone because I was so angry at how much I
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  Speaker 1: liked it. I love the contrasting colors, the the way
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  Speaker 1: that drigg It is thinking of like, oh, like you
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  Speaker 1: can feel it in the pages of like she can
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  Speaker 1: finally let go, She's finally gonna get rid of this,
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  Speaker 1: She's getting her revenge, like, yeah, it feels so good,
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  Speaker 1: and then like at the same time, you're like Gavvy no,
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  Speaker 1: like don't do this, like you're only gonna get hurt again.
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  Speaker 1: I it's just so good.
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  Speaker 2: It was so good, and this should be our final
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  Speaker 2: ad break. So y'all thanks for bearing with us. We
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  Speaker 2: appreciate y'all. We'll be right back. Yeah, And I go
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  Speaker 2: back and forth on if I really needed that much
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: preview to how their relationship was on Valo. But in
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: the grand scheme of things, I really think it limited
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  Speaker 2: itself well to the comic format to Yeah, especially with
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  Speaker 2: like them like trading outfits and like drigg it following
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 2: along to Jedi practices and stuff like. It really worked well.
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  Speaker 2: Alyssa did an incredible job. The colors by Dan Jackson
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: are superb, and I love how consistent Alisa Rumpoley's artwork is,
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  Speaker 2: Like I feel like it flows very well with the
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  Speaker 2: previous issues, but I also feel like it stands on
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  Speaker 2: its own as uh there are and everything. So I
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  Speaker 2: really give props to that, because it's hard to blend
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  Speaker 2: in your own artwork and make it feel like it
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  Speaker 2: belongs in somebody else's series.
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  Speaker 3: So superb work all around.
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  Speaker 1: Really like this right here, it's so goddamn good. I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: The way that they played with Gavy's connection to the
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: force these brings, the threads, and how he's like holding
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: on to it because he doesn't want to let go
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  Speaker 1: of drigg it, and like he's just running towards it
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: and running towards it and running towards it. Absolutely love it.
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  Speaker 1: I really love there is the again, remind me who
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  Speaker 1: the the colorist is on this book, Dan Jackson, Dan Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: There is just an amazing work with shadows on this,
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  Speaker 1: with the brightness of the lightsaber to the brightness of
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  Speaker 1: the explosions, to the blaster shots. Like everything everything pops,
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  Speaker 1: there's a shadow wherever there needs to be a shadow.
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  Speaker 1: It is so good. The shading is so good here.
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  Speaker 1: I really love, like I said, the page that I
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: just showed. It's the page where they are hugging Driggets crying.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, I don't even deserve your forgiveness. He's like, well,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: that's too bad. You got in anyway, you know. But
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  Speaker 1: I also love like the back and forth between the
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: Warden and Drigget because eventually, when her plan does succeed. Uh.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: He's like, well, what's going on? Like he's confused as hell,
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: because he, like she very convincingly was like, hey, just
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: put me in charge first, you know, I got this,
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  Speaker 1: Like I can definitely do this. Okay, you should trust
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: me because look at how many people I killed for
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: you and like all this other stuff, right, and so
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, sure, yeah, you I'm very proud of
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: who you were becoming. Driggate is literally some of the
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: last words he speaks to her with and the back
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: and forth finally when she is executing the plan, destroying
• 1:16:26
  Speaker 1: the excavators and everything else, and how she just like
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: literally just like a badass, throws the communit and just
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: blasts it on the ground like screw you, Like you'll
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: never see or hear from me ever. Again. I just
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: love it. It's it's some could probably say like, Okay,
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 1: that's a little overkill, it's kind of dramatic, But because
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: of the weight that all of this is really holding
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: on both Gavy and on Driggott's character to finally kind
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: of let go of that is what this issue is
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: really about. And I really really enjoyed that. I think
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: that it came across very very well, and like even
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: towards the end, like when she is kind of hating
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: herself so much for what she has done, how she
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 1: has changed as a character through all of this, she
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: still is a badass. Takes Gavvy's lightsaber. It's like, hey,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know how to use this, but I have
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: watched Gabby train for years, so I think I know
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  Speaker 1: a thing or two. It is actually able to fight
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  Speaker 1: with it, which I thought was absolutely amazing, very very fun,
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: very cool, such a big.
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  Speaker 2: Work with the fight scene and showing that struggle that
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: she's having to hold that lightsaber up because we know,
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 2: despite what it looks like that it's a beam of plasma,
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 2: it actually is very heavy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and can weigh on a person, which makes it
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 3: even heavier.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: Not only that, but like like the the balance of
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: the fact that, like literal plasma has no weight to it,
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: but yeah, the weight of the hilt and everything else
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: inside of it. Like there is a reason why these
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: Padawans train from a very young age to be masters eventually,
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: you know. So I loved all of that. Again, shading
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 1: here is really really fun. The panel progression for this
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: fight is really cool, and like even the ending the ending,
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: like I like, I kind of hate it, but at
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: the same time it's so good. I can't hate it because.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 3: It really makes sense for Driggate.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: It makes sense for Driggate. But there's literally no conclusion
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: between the two of them. But you're still satisfied, which
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: is why I'm a little upset, because again, I wanted
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: that conclusion. I wanted that resolution, and there is a
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: little bit of it, but like Alyssa almost leaves like
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit of like, hey, you know, kind of
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: like you were saying with uh oh master, uh snube
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: sorry how it's kind of like, oh, you know, eventually
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: we can go back to this and tell these stories,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: right you You almost get a little a little crumb
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: of like, oh, you know what, She's gone, but I
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: can still feel her. I still have this thread. We
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: are still connected and you know, maybe someday we can
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: see each other again. Like it gives you hope, and
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: I'm just like, God, damn it, I still want to
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: read this.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: Well, guys, I do, in fact think that is about
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: it for us at this point.
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  Speaker 3: Do we have anything else to clay?
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah? No, I will say I do like the mask
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: that Driget dawned at the very end, I thought it
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: was very like vigilante esque for her to just take
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: that Nihill mask and be like, hey, you know, I'm
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: just gonna do my own thing. I thought was really fun.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: But no, I think that is it. I think this
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: was a great story. We still have one more volume
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: of the High Republic Adventures, and still we don't know
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: what's to come next. Guys. New York Comic Con is
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 1: literally around the corner. We could be getting any announcement. Remember,
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: like one thing that the publishing movement for Star Wars
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: has said over and over and over again, they don't
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: have to wait for San Diego, they don't have to
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: wait for Star Wars celebration, they don't have to wait
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: for any comic goon. They can just do whatever. And
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: they really feel like they are confident enough with their initiatives,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: with their plans going and moving forward, that people are
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: just gonna be like cool, Yeah, word of mouth will
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: get there, social media will get there. And so I'm
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: excited for New York Comic Con because there is always
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: hope that something could come out of that. I believe
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: they have made announcements at New York Comic Con before
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: New York Comic Con is a little bit more of
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: a bigger convention, bigger enough for like even studios to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: make announcements for movies and animated TV shows. So hopefully
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 1: we will see something coming out from Star Wars publishing.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: Ye with that, though, again, guys, thank you so much
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: for being here. Just like Katie pulled up on the YouTube,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: find us please over at Blue Sky and Instagram. I
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: just tried to. I don't think I've actually signed in
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: on threads, but like, I went to the Instagram, the
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: Star Wars Instagram account, and then I pressed the little
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: threads button and it immediately took me to my fanboy
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: Clay account, and I'm like, what the heck? So eventually,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: once I figure it out, you could also find us
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: on threads. You will start to see more, uh stuff
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: on our social media accounts after my vacation. I have
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: decided that I'm in the planning stage. I'm in the
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: preparing stage. But we will have more stuff on our
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: social media.
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 3: After like this, please gonna give me assignments.
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: But speaking of assignments, Katie also reminded me that, uh,
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have to do a Star Wars quiz soon.
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 3: Yes, dragon Con is this weekend.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: I am super terrified because I don't think I remember
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: any of the answers. So so I know that one answer,
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: that one question that like ninety five percent of people
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 1: get wrong, I know that I'm gonna get wrong, Like,
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, I think I think I I literally got
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: it right last year just because of guessing, Like I
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: know that I'm gonna get it wrong this year.
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  Speaker 2: So if it makes you feel, that's typically the only
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: question that returns to the quizzes.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 3: Everything else is spread.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: New Oh my gosh. So uh yeah. So other than
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: following the show on Blue Sky on Instagram, you can
• 1:23:33
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• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: I have been doing a piss poor job at you know,
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: all of my reading assignments that I've been giving myself. Again,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: I am, you know, really trying to entertain a two
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: year old for nine hours of the day. So reading
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: is unfortunately on the bottom of the list of things
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: to do. But I am planning on reading a lot
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: of stuff on We're Listening, should I say, to a
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: lot of stuff on my flight and on my vacation.
• 1:24:10
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• 1:24:13
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• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: where can people find you?
• 1:24:18
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• 1:24:19
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• 1:25:03
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• 1:25:04
  Speaker 2: With that, I want to wish everyone a great day
• 1:25:06
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• 1:25:09
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  Speaker 1: Mhm.